Bibliograph

The bells of memory, a Palestinian boyhood in Jerusalem, Issa J. Boullata

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The bells of memory, a Palestinian boyhood in Jerusalem, Issa J. Boullata

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bells of memory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Issa J. Boullata

Sub title

a Palestinian boyhood in Jerusalem

Summary

The distinguished Arabic scholar, author, and translator Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is delightful in its reflections on an idyllic youth and detailed in its recollections of family members, classmates and teachers, remembered scents and foods, the pleasures of reading, and his early experience of the working world. This is a love letter to a Jerusalem that was changed immeasurably by Al-Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 that dispossessed the Palestinians of their homeland and dislocated many as refugees when Israel was established

Table Of Contents

Roots in Jerusalem -- The lady teachers -- Turbulent times -- The bookworm -- The Old City -- College des Freres -- Al-Nakba : the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine

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